State Ex Rel. Saperstein v. Bass

Relator, Sanford Saperstein, filed his petition in the Circuit Court of Hamilton County, seeking to have ordinance No. 2307, and amendments thereto, declared void, and seeking a writ of mandamus to require E. D. Bass, Mayor of Chattanooga, to issue to him a certificate of good moral character in connection with his application for license to operate a retail liquor store at No. 120 East Fourth Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The circuit judge dismissed the petition on demurrer, and relator has appealed to this court and assigned errors. ;

It appears from the petition that on May 16-, 1939, the…